PT>  KU>> The touchiness was largely because many people felt
 PT>  KU>> (quite rightly IMHO) that it wasn't the school's business to
 PT>  KU>> do this in
 PT>> the
 PT>  KU>> first place.
 PT>>
 PT>> Well, who will pick up that splenomegaly before the kid dies on
 PT>> the football field from a ruptured spleen? If the school doesn't
 PT>> require a physical prior to sports, who is to blame for that kid's
 PT>> ruptured spleen (and how many millions will the settlement be
 PT>> worth)?
 MS>     You miss the critical difference: being a football player is a
 MS> _voluntary_ choice, not something required of all students as a state
 MS> policy!
Phony precedents - this is the way many of these things worm their way into 
law or "policy".
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